Non-linear electromagnetism and special relativity

DOI10.3934/DCDS.2009.23.435MaRDI QIDQ1001795zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Denis Serre

Publication date 19 February 2009

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2009.23.435

zbMATH Keywords

Lorentz invariancenonlinear electromagnetismspecial relativity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L45) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Special relativity (83A05)

Review text

The paper makes use of the assumption of Lorentz invariance and, in particular, shows that nonlinearity forbids the convexity of the energy density. This is used to justify the study of rank-one convex and polyconvex densities. It is also shown that either electrodynamics is linear, or that dispersion is lost as the intensity of the magnetic field increases.

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